The standings say the Dodgers are the best team in baseball, and one game doesn't change that. The best team and its best pitcher proved to be vulnerable for one night to the getting-better-and-better Astros, who extended their winning streak to four with a 3-1 victory at Dodger Stadium.

The crowd of 36,283 saw the Dodgers fall to 19-5 at home on a night they had reigning Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw on the mound.

Astros righthander Lucas Harrell got the best of Kershaw, who had been 25-6 with 2.20 ERA since the start of the 2010 season. Harrell shut out the Dodgers the first seven innings and had a 3-0 lead before enduring a harrowing eighth inning in which Mills ran through five pitchers.

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Thanks to key outs by lefty Fernando Abad and righty Fernando Rodriguez to close out the inning, the Dodgers left the bases loaded to ensure Harrell's night of exemplary work didn't go to waste.

Harrell worked a career-high 71⁄3 innings and allowed one run, thrice escaping two-on, one-out jams. The sinker-balling Harrell was on such a roll, he induced three consecutive comebackers to the mound in the seventh inning.

Speaking of rolls, Brett Myers allowed only an infield single in the ninth on the way to converting his 12th save in 13 chances.

J.D. Martinez had his fingerprints all over the Astros' offensive production, creating one run with some aggressive base running and two more with a third-inning home run. The Astros were on the cusp of doing considerably more damage against Kershaw, with drives by Lee, Chris Snyder and Jed Lowrie dying at the warning track.

Jose Altuve gave Kershaw no time to get his bearings, leading off the game with his first of two doubles. After Martinez reached safely on catcher's interference, Lee bounced what looked like a double-play grounder to third base. Jerry Hairston threw to second to get one half of the double play, but a takeout slide by Martinez harassed Elian Herrera into a wild throw that allowed Altuve to score.

That's one more run than the Astros managed against Kershaw in seven innings of a 5-1 Dodgers victory at Minute Maid Park on April 21.Two innings later, a one-out double by Lowrie and homer by Martinez padded the Astros' lead to 3-0. By then, Harrell had stranded Dodgers in scoring position twice.

Harrell had retired 11 of 12 batters before walking Bobby Abreu to lead off the sixth. A one-out single by Hairston brought the tying run to the plate, but Harrell got James Loney to bounce into a 4-6-3 double play.

Then the Astros took an unwanted walk on the wild side. A one-out single by Herrera in the eight prompted Mills to bring in lefty Wesley Wright to face lefties Abreu and Andre Either. Wright proceeded to walk Abreu and allowed a single by Ethier to load the bases.

Wilton Lopez, who had walked only one batter in is previous 24 appearances, then walked in a run. Abad came through to strike out pinch hitter Ivan DeJesus, and Rodriguez retired A.J. Ellis on a fly to center. To the Astros' gratitude, Myers pitched a relatively stress-free ninth inning.